Farmers: Tracking water, soil quality is part of the job
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Calhoun County farmers say the issue of conservation and preventing pollution is one that comes quite close to home.
Ask Kevin Poen, who has been farming here his whole life, first as a child on his family farm, then the past 30 years on his own. Poen said when his children were born, his wife bought bottled nursery water for the babies, then later installed a filtration system on their home’s water faucets. Poen said one year, he tested those two water sources, as well as his farm’s well. The latter, he said, came back the cleanest.
“I am concerned about my water,” he said, in the sense that he keeps a close eye on quality.
Read more in the Feb. 25 edition.
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